Julie Andrews Quotes

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Julie Andrews

Profession : Actress

Birth : October 1, 1935

I don't think today's younger audience... would even know what 1920s musicals were like.

Julie Andrews

Because of the Thames I have always loved inland waterways - water in general, water sounds - there's music in water. Brooks babbling, fountains splashing. Weirs, waterfalls; tumbling, gushing.

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I was always told I was not pretty enough.

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I had no education whatsoever, and my mother said, 'Oh, you'll get a much better education in life.' I did to some extent, though I always wish I could have tried it.

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More than anything, the arts are the best teaching tool.

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I'm never sure one is exactly ready. You jump in, with both feet, into a very big fish pond.

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My mother was terribly important to me, and I know how much I yearned for her in my youth, but I don't think I truly trusted her.

Julie Andrews

I had a lot of learning on my feet.

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I have always wished I could learn to be a potter. I love collecting ceramics; it would be so fulfilling to create something lovely.

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You just don't know in life. Life knocks you about and pushes you over boundaries. But be ready. Do your homework; that's all I can say.

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I was working from a very early age.

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I'm the lucky one who got asked to do 'The Sound of Music' and all the other lovely things that I did.

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I love to prune my roses. That's the one thing I really feel I do pretty well. Other things I usually, because I travel so much, leave to my gardeners who know what I love. But I do love to prune them, because you forget everything else. It's like if you're a painter, you can forget everything else while you're doing it.

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I grew up knowing only war, so for me, it was the way things were. It wasn't pleasant by any means.

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I would be a fool to deny my own abilities.

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I had toured around England endlessly throughout my teens, but when I came to the U.S. to perform on Broadway, that was a huge step.

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I was a child prodigy who had a freak voice of something like four octaves.

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I'm resilient, and I'm professional.

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Singing has never been particularly easy for me.

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There's nothing like the joy of the arts, and promoting the arts early in children is going to give them such a start in life in a way.

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